Senior BI Analyst/Developer

Introduction

We are seeking a senior, business-facing Business Intelligence leader who combines deep technical expertise with hands-on delivery and light-touch team leadership. This role is accountable for facilitating world-class BI delivery for the business, ensuring insights are timely, trusted, and directly support investment decision-making, risk management, and portfolio oversight.

The role remains strongly hands-on: the successful candidate is expected to personally design and deliver complex BI solutions while also coordinating and uplifting a small team of BI Analysts. Leadership in this context is about setting direction, removing obstacles, enforcing standards, and enabling consistent, high-quality outcomes rather than pure people management.

The Senior BI Developer will act as a primary BI partner to the business, shaping the BI roadmap, translating strategic questions into analytical solutions, and continuously improving how data is used across the organization.

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who learns quickly, respects proven conventions, and elevates the team’s expertise through coaching and thoughtful refactoring.

Duties & Responsibilities

BI Leadership, Coordination & Enablement

· Act as the senior technical authority for BI, setting best practices, standards, and design principles across the BI estate.

· Coordinate and guide a small team of BI Analysts, balancing hands-on delivery with review, mentoring, and technical direction.

· Remain an active contributor, owning and delivering complex, high-impact dashboards, reports, and data models.

· Review and assure BI outputs to ensure they meet agreed standards for accuracy, performance, usability, and consistency.

· Facilitate effective ways of working across the BI team, including prioritization, estimation, and delivery cadence.

· Support skills development and knowledge sharing to uplift overall team capability.

BI Delivery & Stakeholder Partnership

· Own the end-to-end delivery of BI solutions, from requirement definition through to deployment and ongoing enhancement.

· Partner closely with investment, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders to priorities BI initiatives and manage demand.

· Translate complex business requirements into scalable, well-designed BI solutions.

· Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, using data and insights to influence decision-making.

Data & Reporting Solutions

· Oversee the design, build, and maintenance of dashboards and reports covering portfolio performance, cash flows, risk, and credit metrics.

· Drive standardization and reusability of reports, data models, and metrics across the organization.

· Ensure high levels of data accuracy, consistency, and transparency in all BI outputs.

· Champion automation of recurring reporting to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.

Data Architecture & Continuous Improvement

· Work closely with IT and data engineering teams to shape data models, pipelines, and BI architecture.

· Define and enforce BI best practices, including data modelling standards, naming conventions, and documentation.

· Identify opportunities to improve BI tooling, processes, and performance.

· Stay abreast of developments in BI tools, analytics techniques, and data visualisation best practices, and apply them pragmatically.

Desired Experience & Qualification

10+ years of experience in BI, analytics, or data roles, ideally within asset management, private markets, or financial services.

· BI Tools: Expert-level experience with Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik, including enterprise-scale deployments.

· Data Platform

o Experience working with cloud-based data platforms (preferably Azure: Synapse, Fabric, Data Factory).

o Familiarity with managing BI datasets and refresh strategies in enterprise environments.

· SQL: Advanced SQL skills for complex querying, optimization, and data validation.

· Data Modelling: Strong experience designing analytical data models (e.g. star and snowflake schemas).

· ETL & Data Pipelines

o Strong experience designing and implementing ETL/ELT pipelines, including incremental data loads and data transformation strategies.

o Experience with modern data tooling (e.g., Azure Data Factory, SSIS, dbt, or equivalent).

o Understanding of data warehousing concepts, including fact/dimension modelling, slowly changing dimensions, and historical tracking

· Application & Data Integration

o Experience integrating BI solutions with application backends (e.g., .NET APIs) and frontends (e.g., SPA frameworks such as Vue or React)

o Familiarity with embedded analytics approaches (e.g., Power BI Embedded or custom dashboarding solutions).

o Strong understanding of data access patterns, pagination, filtering, and performance considerations in application-driven reporting.

· Excel: Advanced Excel skills, including Power Query; VBA experience beneficial.

· Experience optimizing BI and SQL workloads for large datasets (millions+ rows)

· Governance: Experience implementing data quality controls and reporting standards.

Education & Qualifications

· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.

· Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end BI solutions, from data modelling through to visualization and stakeholder adoption .

Nice to Have

· Strong understanding of asset management and investment concepts, ideally including:

o Fixed income, private credit, and alternative investments

o Portfolio construction, monitoring, and performance measurement

o Credit risk and exposure analysis

· Familiarity with the investment lifecycle and associated data sources.

Package & Remuneration

Billed per hour x 160 hour per month

12 month renewable contract

Hybrid in Newlands, Cape Town (2-3 days a week in office)